Anti-Gay Preacher Claims Gays Will ‘Burn Christians At The Stake’

Kevin Swanson tackled the issue of Colorado’s same-sex civil unions bill. The conservative Swanson, who is — perhaps unsurprisingly — against same-sex unions, made a number of unconventional claims while he was on the topic.

Swanson said he believes America will be a very, very different place in fewer than 10 years. He then outlined a bizarre scenario, in which home-schooled children would be “swooped away” by social services and given to homosexual homes, where he said children might be abused.

Said Swanson:

What’s happening is they want homosexuals to be able to be involved in adoption and foster care as much anybody else. So picture a nice little home-school family, just trying to do the right thing. An anonymous tip comes in, social services swoops in, they grab the kids in the year 2022, and the kids get remanded into a home with homosexuals, and these particular homosexuals happen to be tied into NAMBLA and other things.

(NAMBLA is a reference to the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a “tiny fringe group that looms large in the nightmares of the anti-gay movement,” according to Right Wing Watch.)

As evidence, Swanson trotted out the so-called Regnerus study from 2012, which claimed that children raised by same-sex parents were at a disadvantage. That study drew strong criticism and was labeled inaccurate by many social scientists, according to LifeScience.

Swanson went on to reference some murky historical “facts” about the history of gay marriage in Ancient Rome:

I’m not sure the world has ever gone to homosexual marriage. I think Nero tried it, it was very, very odd, very weird, very, very decadent for the Roman Empire. It’s about the worst the Roman Empire ever, ever got, under Nero…

Today, it might be a little different because you have a lot of quote-unquote apostate Christian churches that have adopted homosexuality and they will do their best to burn Christians at the stake or do what Nero did… because that’s sort of the history of homosexuals.